Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-23

CAMS. DE- PoTEsTAD SAID TO Be DYING.
Correspondence of The EVENING STAR.
FoRr WILLIAM HENRY HOTEL,
LAKE GEORGE, y. Y, July 2l
This most beautiful and peace-inspiring OF
lakes gives an especial sense or rest and relief
when reached Immediately after enduring the
noise heat and dirt OF journey from the cool air
OF Long Branch through New York city. The at
mosphere OF these shores Is pure and cool, and
'the poutice OF silence comes to heal the blows Of
sound" But while IL is not noisy here It is by no
means quiet In the sense OF being dun or stupid.
The Fort William Henry Hotel Is one OF the very
Few have ever seen in n dramatically beautiful
situation, which harmoniZes with its surround
fngs and adds TO the picturesque scenery instead
OF being blot OF ugliness, as so many country
hotels are upon the landscape.
Gen. sherman was here before he started on his
sea voyage. and his wife is still In pleasant cot
tage near by at this end OF the lake, evidently en-
1oytng the quiet life she leads but she often drops
In TO see her friends at the Fort William Henry
hotel which Is the headquarters OF gayety for the
neighborhood Its band plays three times Q day.
ana every evening there is dancing to its music In
the large parlor.
Gen. sherman is expected to Join his wife and
daughters and youngest son at their cottage by
the end OF this week. That was his expectation
when they last heard from him from Halifax. lie
mas stipulated only for a horse, a boat and
latch-key To ensure.his comfort while here. His
daughters, who are here, are Miss Lizzie and Miss
Rachel.
TAILY-HO FROM SARATOGA.
There was large excursion party here on Sun
day from Columbus Ohio. There were then 500
people In the hotel who were charmed to find that
the thermometer marked no such heat as WAS
Then prevailing I'm almost all parts OF the country
on Tuesday, Geo. Law, OF New York, drove
hlther from Saratoga with party OF friends on
tally-ho coach, drawn by six horses, and took
cottage IN the hotel grounds, where they spent
TWO or three days and made several excursions in
lxls
parture.
Mr.. Greger OF the Russian legation, had ocou-
pied that cottage for two weeks, and vacated IL
the day before the six-in-hand party arrived. Mr.
Greger was called to New York on oficial business
Mr.. Preston, the minister from Hayt, and his
daughter-in-law and her children, and his son,
MI. stephen Preston, are here, as they have been
Tor Two weeks But find was misnformed as
10 Nine. Preston and her daughter having returned
from Europe, as they had expected to do. The
second daughter is not WELL SO they have gone TO
Boulogne, France, for her health. But the whole
family are TO be i'm Washington I'm october. and
will occupy the house next To Senator McPherson's
on Vermont avenue. through the winter. MIR.
Preston's eldest son. whose wife Is here, has gone
10 Hayti, and his family Will be here until he re-
Mr.. f. o. Roessle, so pleasantly remembered In
Washington, where he grew up, is the host OF the
Delayan House. at Albany. He spends every sun
day with his family at Lake george His father
has his only daughter here With him, as Well as
his sons wife and baby girl.
Mrs. Br1tton, OF Washington, and her children
ana Miss Brftt0n are here.
MRS. GRANT AND HER FAMILY.
Mrs. Grant, when saw her at Long Branch, told
me she expected her daughter, Mrs. SAftoris. To
arrive from England I'm August to make her a
visit. She was keeping house In London through
the winter and spring, and then Went 10 her hus-
bands fathers home in the country, near SOUTH
ampton, 50 as TO make her boy (born in March,
1877, in Washington, at Mrs. Dents house in Cor
coran street, have good time when he came from
school for his vacation. But for this motherly
pan Mrs. SartOrtS would have come 10 see her own
mother earlier. Her son has attended school at
Brighton, England. Col. and Mrs. Fred. Grants
children-nanled respectively for General and Mrs.
Grant, Ulysses and Julia, inherit their mothers
beauty and grace OF manner. Julia Is now eleven
years Old and was the last baby born In the White
HOuSe-and the only one since some time before
the war between the States. i think the last pre-
ceding baby born In that mansion was one of
President TylerS grandchildren, OF whom two, as
Mrs. Tyler has told me, were born there. Little
Julia Grant was chi1stened In the blue parlor, at
the White House, in June or July, 1875.
The Turkish minister is visiting a frfend-a
Greek--at Monmouth Beach, near the cottage oc-
cuped by Mrs E. Patten and her daughters, Of
Washington.
Since my arrival here have heard that Miss
Ium, OF New York, who is very highly connected
in that city, but is not wealthy.
York, and his wife, who, during his term in Con-
gress, were such favor1tes In Washington, are
spending the summer at Long Branch. Both are
looking well and are as agreeable as ever.
Gen. Thomas killby Smith, who used to be much
in washington, and now lives at TOrresdale Pa,
is spending the summer at Long Branch He Is
one Of the corps OF the New York Star at present,
and goes daily to New York during business hours.
Pay director Cunningham, U.s.N:, who has been
lingering in New York since he left Washington,
will sail for Halifax In few days Mrs Cunning
ham is with her son at his cottage at Narragan-
Sett.
Mr. Linus Price, formerly OF the Office OF the
Controller OF the Currency, Z. S. Treasury De-
partment, has been at Long Branch for a long
visit.
THE JOURNEY FROM LONG BRANCH.
Following my usual rule OF breaking a journey
upinto sections to make easier to my mother and
self, we decided, although it is possible to come
from Long Branch to Lake George the same day,
and especially SO on a Saturday, when a train
leaving New York at $3.50 p. III. arrives at Cald-
we'll Lake George, at 1880, TO divide the trip by
passing sunday at Albany. and spending a few
hours at saratoga also on our way Lither
New York was hot, dirty and noisy as usual to
pass through at this season, but we managed 10
do IL quickly and cneaply too, by taking surface
'crosS town" street car at COrtlandt street. after
leaving the ferry. and riding TO the Sd avenue
city and on that line TO 42d street. and thence by
its immediate connection (also elevated) TO the
very door OF the Grand Central depot. This "trip
occupied only about three quarters OF an hour,
perhaps a few minutes less. and cost us 10 cents
piece cents on the surface cars ana the same on
the Others In coming from Washington direct,
one can take the ferry to DeSbroSSeS street. which
is much higher up town than the landing of that
had TO take coming from Long Branch and get In
a cross-town car there which also connects with
ride is much shorter and time consumed and
disagreeable objects seen, less.
Living in Washington, where gentlemen are al.
WAYS ready to offer seats to ladies' especially no
ticed that both In the surface and elevated the
seats were filled with men and the standing room
with women. 1t was Saturday afternoon, hall
holiday, and every convey ance In and leading
from the city was crowded. But we had good
rest in the managed Grand Central depot
and pleasant swift ride over the Hudson River
K r. to Albany, the quaint old town which al.
ways wants to contrOvert the old aXiOm-"The
whole is equal to the sum Of all its parts,n by In
sisting that one or the parts OF our tremendous
whole the United States, Is greater than the
whole, the part being The state OF New York, OF
OF washington, the capital OF the United States,
is reminded at all times that Albany Is the bigger
and vastly more important capital OF the two.
Albany, by the way, keeps her capitol building
open ali day sunday and until 1890 .. IN on that
day 50 that no stranger need fail TO inspect its
magnificent interior decorations
GETTING THE BAGGAGE THROUGH.
But to get oneself through New York on satur.
day In summer from point south or west OF 1t to
one i'm the opposite direction is not nearly so
serious an undertaking as to get ones baggage
through the same day, but am glad to say We
did succeed In having a trunk checked In the
morning at Long Branch, via the Hudson River
Railroad from New York, which caused II TO
travel several miles In New York city, delivered
at the Delavah House In Albany shortly after
8 O'Clock that evening. Fortunately 1t was one OF
my trunks which had the Congressional Directory,
Mr. SpoffOrd's almanac containing the T. S. Con-
Suitution), a postal card and other things Also
lutely indispensable to my comfort for night and
rest e Sae b %a started an
ton Of the greater weight and value OF its con-
tents, four or five hours before did In order to
overcome the difficulties OF transit through New
1t was miracle that the trunk got through so
quick, but as regard the United States Constitu-